Studied at the 2nd School for Workers’ Children, Petrograd (1922–1924); Leningrad College of Arts and Design (1924–1926). Exhibited from 1930. Member of the All-Russian Trade Union of Art Workers (1930). Worked as an artist for MODPiK (Moscow Society of Playwrights and Composers), OGIZ (Association of State Book and Magazine Publishing Houses), the USSR Academy of Sciences, GIKHL – Goslitizdat (State Fiction Publishing House) publishing houses (1927–1936); in the Leningrad Commission Agency for Art Workers (1927–1936); as instructor in the Leningrad Proletkult team (1930); consultant in the Department of Amateur Art Activities attached to the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Council of Working People’s Deputies (1936–1938); set designer for the Young Spectators’ Theatre, Krasnoyarsk (1938–1939); chief artist at the Garrison Theatre, Komsomolsk-on-Amur (1939– 1940); at the State Antireligious Museum, former St Isaac’s Cathedral (1941). Participant in WWII. Main collections: Russian National Museum of Music (Moscow).

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